PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
National Crime Agency: Staff (25 October 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) budget, (b) headcount, and (c) the number of accreditations issued to financial investigators for each year in the last five years by the National Crime Agency's Proceeds of Crime Centre.

Asked by:
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)

(a) budget

The total spending of the Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC) over in each of the last five financial years is in the table below. This covers a range of costs, for example pay, overtime, travel, training delivery costs.

Financial year	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22 (year to date[1])
£	982,365	962,650	874,568	937,167	501,138

(b) headcount

The headcount of the POCC now, and at the end of the preceding four financial years, and the year to date is in the table below.

	March 2018	March 2019	March 2020	March 2021	October 2021
Staff in post	14	15	16	18	20

(c) number of accreditations

The number of new accreditations given to Financial Investigators (FIs) by the POCC is set out below. The POCC also provides accredited FIs with Continuous Professional Development assurance and advice. In addition the POCC does a variety of work beyond new accreditations for FIs, including accreditations to non-FIs, providing non-accredited training, and acting as expert advisers across Law Enforcement.

Financial year	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22 (year to date[2])
Financial Investigators accredited	201	241	151	119	140
Confiscators* accredited	143	118	83	51	47

*Confiscator accreditation can be gained by experienced FIs in order to hold additional powers.

[1] As of the 26^th October 2021

[2] As of 28^th October 2021

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
2 November 2021